Trojan Horse

 Quick weekend project: the Trojan Horse I printed out a couple weekends ago:

Needs some highlight and some detail work still, but it's moving along pretty quick.

Perseus: Shading face

 I got back to Perseus today, specifically working on his face. I've added shading here.

The shading needs to go darker. Also, while I usually like skin tones that are shaded with purple, I'm not sure about this one. It's really hard to tell while he's just one big blob of base olive skin, though, so I might need to block in the hair color at least to get a good read on it.

Medusa: Done (for now). Phaedra: Skin base.

 Lined/shaded Medusa's snakes. I'll be honest, I am super sick of these paints, so I did not do this with nearly as much care as I could have. I lined between the snakes with really dark green-brown, shaded here and there, and called it good. The difference is subtle, but significant.

Then, I put her aside and picked up Phaedra. Looking closely, it looks like she's a person wearing a whole lot of armor. I wasn't sure; I thought she might be some kind of clockwork bronze person or something. But no, looks like a person wearing armor. So, I put a base coat on the areas of flesh that do show. Most of it is going to end up shaded. I was not super neat about it.

This figure is silly, and the casting is terrible.

Medusa's Snakes: Details, Highlights

 Got the rest of the pattern details and the highlights on the snakes today. Yay! I need to do shading over the whole head of 'hair', and then she'll be done for a while. There's anatomy on the bottom of her neck that I'll paint eventually, but I'm going to do that after she's attached (and the brass rod is removed or cut down).

Medusa's Snakes: Rest of the lines

 Finished up the lines for the patterns on the snakes. Next: filling in the light and dark patches inside the lines.

Medusa's Snakes: Patterning

 I started adding the pattern to the rest of the red snakes. I'd hoped to get farther with it today, but I didn't get in as much time as I'd have liked. Anyway, I think I'm through just under half her head.

Medusa's Snakes: The rest of the base coat

 I was going to shade the snakes I'd finished the detailing on, but realized that I'd also end up shading unfinished snakes, which I don't want to do. I want the detailing on the red snakes to be in place before I shade. So, I went back and base coated the rest of her 'hair'. I'll detail and highlight it, and then go back and do shading over the whole thing last.